Harry Redknapp was very low after being denied three points by Shaun Maloney's late goal

That is the toughest one to take – in my entire career

Harry Redknapp

Loic Remy looked to have won the game for QPR in their bid to beat relegation with a superb first-time finish in the 85th minute.

But QPR – who played for more than an hour at Loftus Road with 10 men after Bobby Zamora’s “rash” sending-off for kicking Jordi Gomez in the face – conceded a free-kick and Maloney curled it into the top corner to make it 1-1.

QPR remain seven points from safety and look doomed. Redknapp said: “That is the toughest one to take – in my entire career, not just this season. We just did not deserve that. We deserved to win. It was criminal. We played with 10 men nearly all game and deserved to win. I am low, like the players, very low.”

Redknapp agreed that Zamora should have been sent off but stood by Adel Taarabt, who appeared to pull his head out of the way of Maloney’s free-kick in the wall. He was upset that his team had not kept the ball in the final seconds.

“I thought Bobby deserved to be sent off, as it was a rash challenge,” said Redknapp. “But Taarabt didn’t duck, he jumped. I’m not going to blame Adel.

“But I think the referee was quite desperate to give them a free-kick or two around the box at every opportunity. I don’t quite know where we got four minutes of injury-time.

“We clear one free-kick and you think that’s game over. Then we commit another foul and give them another free-kick.”

Shaun Maloney scored a sweet free-kick in injury time to steal a point from fellow strugglers QPR